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The soul stirrer: Maureen Cleave meets Sam Cooke in 1962 and Roger St. Pierre asks who remembers the proto-soul star a decade later. Plus Lenny Kaye looks back in 2010 on the gospel-reared heartthrob who "stood at the crossroads of the divine and the secular".

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Gimme shelter: an excerpt from Robert Greenfield's new novel Rainy Gray Town. Plus the author of 1974's Stones tome STP profiles Neil Young for Fusion in 1970 and recalls life at Villa Nellcôte for Main Street exiles Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg. Plus Robert talks about his books and his classic Stones interviews on the RBP podcast in May 2022.

The Long Goodbye

The "Twang" Man: Disc's June Harris discusses the desert and producer Lee Hazlewood with guitar hero Duane Eddy (1938-2024) in 1960 and Don Snowden asks him about his 1983 comeback for the L.A. Times. Plus Jockey Slut's Emma Warren hits the road with drum'n'bass deity LTJ Bukem and vocal accomplice MC Conrad (1972-2024) in 1996.

The Long Read

All about her: a transcript of Barney Hoskyns' phone interview with the magnificent Anita Pallenberg, Keith Richards' former consort considers the role of the "muse" in the story of rock and roll (RBP, 1998).

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Sit yourself down: at home in Bel Air, Stephen Stills talks Dave Zimmer through his life and career from military school to Thoroughfare Gap, via Buffalo Springfield and CSNY (February 1979).

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